Bones, Joints, Soft Tissues Part 1 Flashcards
What is the bone matrix and what is it composed of?
Extracellular component of bone
- Osteoid (organic)
- Mineral
- Inorganic (hardness d/t hydroxyapatite, contains majority of calcium and phosphorus in the body)
What is osteoid? What is a major protein in this and what does that do?
Type 1 collagen
- Contains the protein osteopontin (osteocalcin) that is produced by osteoblasts; contributes to bone formation, mineralization, calcium homeostatis
What are 2 histologic forms of bone? Where do we see these and what are some characteristics?
Woven
- Fetal development or fracture repair (produced rapidly)
- Haphazard arrangement of collagen so less structural integrity
- Abnormal in adults
Lamellar
- Parallel collagen which is stronger but slower to produce
3 types of cells in bone?
What is mechanotransduction and which cell does this?
Osteoblasts
- Blasts build bone
- Regulate mineralization
Osteocytes
- Inactive osteoblasts
- Work through canaliculi
- Control calcium and phosphate levels
- Mechanotransduction: Detects mechanical forces & translates them into biological activity
Osteoclasts
- Multinucleated macrophages that participate in bone resorption
- Resorption pit: Cell surface integrins attach, secrete metalloproteases, dissolve bone
What is endochondral ossificaiton?
What are radial growth and longitudinal growth?
Formation of long bones; cartilage mold is laid down first and then ossified
Radial growth: Osteoblasts deposit cortex beneath periosteum of diaphysis (primary centers of ossificaiton)
Longitudinal growth: New bone is deposited at bottom of growth plates (epiphyses) (secondary centers of ossification)
What is intramembranous ossification?
What is appositional growth?
Formation of flat bones; mesenchyme is directly ossified so no cartilage mold
- Appositional growth: Direct deposit of new bone on pre-existing bone
When is peak bone mass achieved?
Fourth decade of life; after this resorption > formation and you start losing skeletal mass
What is RANK?
Does this cause breakdown or building of bone?
Receptor activator for NF-KB on osteoclast precursors
- When stimulated by RANKL, activates transcription factor NF-KB which is essential for generation and survival of osteoclasts
- B/d of bone
What is RANKL?
Does this cause breakdown or building of bone?
Expressed on osteoblasts & marrow stromal cells
- B/d of bone
What is OPG?
Does this cause breakdown or building of bone?
Osteoprotegerin “decoy” receptor made by osteoblasts
- Binds to RANKL to prevent its interaction with RANK
- Builds bone
What are some systemic factors that promote osteoclast differentiation and bone turnover?
PTH, IL-1, glucocorticoids
What are some systemic factors that block osteoclast differentiation, promote OPG expression, and favor bone deposition?
Bone morphogenic proteins and sex hormones, vitamin D
What role does WNT and beta-catenin play in bone?
What about sclerostin?
WNT proteins trigger activation of beta-catenin & production of OPG
Sclerostin inhibits WNT/beta-catenin to suppress bone formation
What role does M-CSF play?
Macrophage colony stimulating factor helps generation of osteoclasts
How do osteoclasts and osteoblasts work togeter?
Osteoclasts activate a bunch of things in the b/d of the matrix that stimulates osteoblasts
What is dysostosis?
What is Dysplasia?
Dysostosis: Localized disruptions of migration & condensation of mesenchyme & differentiation into cartilage anlage
- Often d/t defects in homeobox genes
Dysplasia: Global disorganization of bone &/or cartilage (abn growth, NOT premalignant)
- Mutations in genes controlling entire skeleton
Dysostosis:
What is aplasia?
What are supernumerary digits?
What is syndactyly or craniosynostosis?
Aplasia: Absence of entire bone or digit
Supernumerary digits: Extra bones or digits
Syndactyly or craniosynostosis: Abn fusion of bones
What gene mutation is common in brachydactyly types D & E? What do you see in this disorder?
HOXD13
Short terminal phalanges of thumb and big toe
What gene mutation is common in cleidocranial dysplasia? What do you see in this disorder?
RUNX2
- Wormian bones (extra cranial bones within cranial sutures)
- Patent fontanelles
- Delayed closure of cranial sutures
- Delayed eruption of secondary teeth
- Primitive clavicles
- Short height
What gene mutation is common in achondroplasia? What do you see in this disorder?
Major cause of dwarfism; short extremities with normal trunk length, enlarged head
- No change in longevity, intelligence, or reproductive status
FGFR3 gain of fxn mutation
What gene mutation is common in thanatophoric dysplasia? What do you see in this disorder?
Most common lethal form of dwarfism; similar to achondroplasia but with small chest cavity (resp insufficiency) and bell-shaped abd leading to death soon after birth
FGFR3 gain of fxn but more sever phenotype than achondroplasia
What causes osteogenesis imperfecta?
What are some common sx?
Deficiencies in type 1 collagen synthesis (alpha 1 and 2 chains) leads to no triple helix formation and “brittle bones”
Brittle bones, blue sclera, hearing loss, dental imperfections
What are the different types of osteogenesis imperfecta?
What genes are involved in Types 1 and 2?
4 subtypes but mainly:
- Type 1 has normal life span with childhood fractures that dec in freq following puberty
- Type 2: Uniformly fatal in utero w intrauterine fractures
Both Types 1 and 2 could have defects in COL1A1, type 2 could have defect in COL1A2
Types 3 and 4 are moderately in between severity of types 1 and 2
What are specific sx of OI Type 1?
- Collagen structure is normal but there is dec amount
- Most fractures happen before puberty w dec in freq after puberty
- Loose joints
- Blue, grey, purple tinted sclera
- Brittle teeth
- Hearing loss possible beginning in early 20s or 30s
- Skeletal fragility
What are specific sx of OI Type 2?
- Most severe form
- Collagen improperly formed
- Lethality d/t respiratory problems
- Numerous fractures and severe bone deformity
- Small stature w underdeveloped lungs
- Blue sclera
What is tx for OI?
- Surgical rodding of long bones
- Exercise, keep healthy weight, good nutrition
- Don’t smoke, don’t take steroids
What is osteopetrosis?
What is defective in this?
Dec bone resorption d/t deficient osteoclast development/fxn leading to diffuse symmetric skeletal sclerosis
Deficiency in carbonic anhydrase 2
- Required by osteoclast & renal tubular cells (renal tubular acidosis) to generate protons from CO2 and water
What is Albers-Schonberg disease? What gene mutation causes this?
Mild auto dominant form of osteopetrosis caused by mutation in CLCN7; required for resorption pit acidification
Is osteopetrosis usually auto dominant or recessive? What gene mutation causes this?
Usually auto recessive caused by mutation of TCIRG1 which encodes subunit of osteoclast vacuolar hydrogen positive ATPase that is necessary for acidification of resorption pit